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"SVTyler" (svtyler) 09/01/2015 at 16:00 • Filed to: None

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“Why do you want to work for our company?” “BITCH WHY DO YOU THINK, I’M BROKE”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 16:05

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As recapped by Dave Chappelle:

And in gif:

Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 16:05

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ly2v8-Brian > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 16:05

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Stupid question is stupid.

SVTyler > Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed 09/01/2015 at 16:10

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They asked me that too and it took everything I had to not be like “Because I’ve made sandwiches before?”

StingrayJake > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 16:10

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When I was in college the student newspaper’s advisers always told us a stupid story about one of her job interviews at a newspaper. The editor asked her why they should hire her and she gave a the usual BS answer about how she was a hard worker/great writer/great editor/etc. She didn’t get the job and sometime later she found out that they would have hired her if she had answered the question with, “Because I want the job.”

And yet somehow I think saying that in an interview is, in most cases, a good way to NOT get the job.

SVTyler > StingrayJake 09/01/2015 at 16:21

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Yeah that’s not exactly the best answer.Then again they probably get so many of the same cookie-cutter responses a bit of honesty (not like that honesty) is refreshing. The guy said he’d recommend me for a second interview because (besides my other qualifications) I was the only dude they interviewed who didn’t parrot the same BS fluff answers. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 16:29

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Tapas > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 16:39

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Oh no, now HR people want their employees to be speshulll - but only in a good way. I tried to pretend I had tourettes and that didnt go well during the interview. (kidding)

People from HRrlandia live in their own bubble. Disconnected from what the technical skills are and what they mean, when specified by managers. Disconnected from what people’s motivations should be to work for a company.

They conflate a person’s passion for the job with their ability/skill to actually do it.

Most people don’t love what they do. But that doesn’t affect their ability to work and contribute to your company.

If they want skill and passion, fuck that. Who the hell lives for the art of fast food service, or balancing accounts? Frankly’ I’d be scared to have freaks like that in my company.

Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed > Tapas 09/01/2015 at 17:17

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Yeah. Most HR interviews are pointless anyway because it’s impossible to gauge wether someone will be successful in a position without subjecting them to a barrage of psychology and intelligence testing, or at least getting an honest evaluation or their prior work. Neither of which you get by speaking to someone you’ve never met for an hour. The best HR can do is see if the applicant would be pleasent to work with.

Anyway, he ought to have just told them he could assemble a burger without smashing the fucking roll. That would put him in the 99th percentile among fast food workers.

No Prius Needed > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 18:00

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What happened to the deltawang?

SVTyler > No Prius Needed 09/01/2015 at 18:17

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This is just a part-time job at a sandwich shop to make some extra money while I’m here at college, Nissan will (*fingers crossed*) be next summer.

Tapas > Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed 09/01/2015 at 18:50

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Yep. Absolutely.

SVTyler > Tapas 09/01/2015 at 20:31

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It’s a part-time job at a family-owned sub shop so there wasn’t any corporate BS to it, thankfully, dude just wanted to get a read on personality and what my skills and experience were. I have yet to apply to any corporate job but I’m really dreading it because of what you were talking about, interviews seem like such shitty ways to accurately gauge someone’s ability and having to act all fake and over-excited just makes my skin crawl.

Tapas > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 21:40

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Oh gotcha. Never mind my rant then lol. I am still surprised how I got into a corporate job without the HR giving me their corporate BS.

Yeah, I can see why they’d want to interview. Gauge your attitude and such...

You may have to do the dance with corporate interviews. But, give honest and polite answers even when others would bs. Like with this passion stuff.

Tell em you’re not passionate about that (idk, plastics?), but you’re interested in it and you have the right degree and back ground. Show them you have the drive and work ethic to get shit done. And now you have my opinion on something completely separete from what you wanted to talk about! :D

SVTyler > Tapas 09/01/2015 at 22:10

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Actually had an interview with Chrysler for an engineering internship (which they said I would’ve gotten had I had enough credits to qualify for it) last year so I know what you’re talking about. You gotta give them the answers they’re looking for while not being a faceless drone repeating the same cliches and platitudes. They liked me because they could tell I was a car guy who wanted to build great cars and not just show up for work to get paid, which they said would be a great angle to work in future interviews (apparently a lot of dudes they interview aren’t car people and are looking for any engineering job).

Tapas > SVTyler 09/01/2015 at 22:20

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Oh cool!

Keep at it man. You have the right approach in mind :)

SVTyler > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 09/02/2015 at 22:53

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Saving for the inevitable FP argument...

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > SVTyler 09/02/2015 at 23:25

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You’re welcome